Boat Launch Day! Plus, Rewiring for New Instruments 

I meant "good LUCK" not "good LOOK" lol

Many thanks, Phil!

Josh started watching your vlog and can't stopped...hehe.. where you forced to resigned from the Navy? As a naval officer you need to promote as time progress in your career or your forced to resigned unless your an enlisted person..by the way I own a 185 bayliner thinking of getting a sailboat soon.

Many thanks! Cheers!

Thanks for the comment, Robert. Hope you are well. ⛵

Good tips. Question, are you saying not to attach metal thru-hull fitting to ground wire? I was not planning to add more zincs to thru-hull fittings but I had always head to "ground" those pieces of metal from the inside.

Yes correct all you are doing is making all fittings live to the zinc so when it gets attacked everything will your are forming a field around the water line forming a battery , so stop the attack at the prop shaft zinc and replace it every year , after the first year you will see the results of corrosion to the block my boat was wired and I noticed things fizzing away around the boat , delete the wire and every thing is fine and free now and the shaft block is usually only half corroded but still attached to the shaft ok you skin fittings cocks , etc are probably bronze set alone in a plastic hull , antifouling painted out side so is protected , just leave them , and worry about the bare metals . shaft , etc , but you will be spending a lot of time on this boat , living , sailing , and just being aboard making the boat lived in , warm etc so not locked up months on end , corroding. I wipe greese just around the exposed part of the fitting in the hull , then with the hose clips I put two on screwed tight and one floating up the hose for emergency at sea and Watch these over time , I also throw handfuls of rock salt in the bulges to take care of moisture, ventilation in boats is paramount , keeping it dry , keep going all good here

Excellent info! Thanks. I've found competing info online, some say to use ground wire on fittings / sea cocks and other say this is no good. I'm hoping not to be plugging into shore power very often so I'm hoping to avoid the problem because I read the corrosion is actually caused by shore power at the dock. Thanks again. This is what's great about forums like this to share knowledge and personal experience. Good stuff.

Shore power won’t be your problem it other boats where people don’t turn off battery’s or are plugged into shore power running fridges , and other long term appliances, on my marina I wander around the boat yard and collect old zinc sand tie them on a wire and hang it over the marina behind my boat , in twenty two years of owning the same boat I have not noticed any corrosion apart from the norm but you will be right , some you have solar panels up the back returning power ,two of you using power on board is minimal, at night we have the tv on or DVD playing the odd movie ,led lights , and small thing charging we only bring the battery’s down to 90 percent , next day Ita all history ,panels take over back to a 100 , so keep going , ew Zealand weather is shit at prez but summer is coming

Many thanks!

Thanks for the tip! Will do. 👍

Thanks for the comment!

Thanks, Carlos!

Hey, sorry to bother but I al not sur eI have hear the name of your boat; how is she called?

Name reveal next episode. 😁😁⛵

Thanks, Peter!

Hey. Yes, boat is now at the marina / dock on the other side near the golf course. I'll only be around until the end of October. How's everything?

You can paint the area first near the stilt, then put up another stilt next to it. Then you can move the other to paint under it.

@@JoshPostVlogs Thanks. I see so many boats on the hard getting the bottoms done by folks like you, but they never show moving the stilts, just the finished product.

Yes indeed. I'm planning to be there the whole week leading up to departure.